What a great addition to the Christmas holiday festivities! A Letter from Santa! The kids are always writting TO Santa, but how many letters do they get FROM Santa? Mostly likely not many!
Well, be a Santa Partner and give the old gentleman a helping hand - and create a wonderful memory for your child - very frugally inexpensive.
I did this last year - paid someone to do it, but this year I asked around and got the "how to" to do it myself! I have not done this this way before, but it doesn't seem to be a problem and was recommend by several. It is a common thing for this post office to do, so I am going to give it a try!
YOU write the letter to your child or grand child "from" Santa. Find some nice stationery - google: free stationery and you'll get lots of sites with great stationery you can copy or download for free. Just make sure you use stationery that the child DOESN'T know you have! Use a creative font and color on your computer and give it a festive look. Something Santa would write!
Create the letter from Santa's point of view. Include things specific to the child that "Santa" would know. Mention family, friends, their pet, school, anything that is important to the child and would be something that "Santa" would know. Mention the city and state they live in and that he will be visiting on Christmas Eve. Mention the reindeers, by name if there's a favorite, and the long trip ahead of Santa. Keep the theme of the letter going with what the child already knows by including the traditional things Santa would say like, "I know you have been good this year" or "It was very nice of you to have helped ___________this year" or "I know you had some sad times this year, but I will bring you some holiday happiness........" Anything that will relate to your child specifically. Of course, sign it with a beautiful script signature of Santa Claus!
Choose an nice festive envelope and address the envelope to the child. Or again, Google:free envelope clip art and you'll find some nice things you can print out on your own envelope.
Go to the PO and get some holiday or christmas themed stamps. Something the child has not seen! You will need a 39¢ postage stamp on each letter. NOW>>>>>>>>>> This late in the game you might want to use USPS Priority Mail - ($4.05 and 2-3 business days) In the Priority envelope (free at the Post Office) place your letter(s). In this case you can write letters to many kids, place in their own envelopes and place ALL of those letters in the same Priority envelope. It is $4.05 up to a pound so you can fit lots of letter in there!
Mail it to: North Pole Christmas Cancellation, Postmaster, 5400 Mail Trail, Fairbanks, AK99709-9999. The post office there is perfectly accustomed to this, and will take care of opening the Priority Mail envelope you sent the letters in and mailing the individual letters for you to the children WITh a North Pole post mark! (When you child gets the letter, find an inconspicious way of pointing that out to them!)
On that surprise day - the little ones get a letter from Santa! I can already hear the squeals of excitment and wonder! Have your camera ready for that wonderful photo of that adorable face when they open the letter! THEN........... after Christmas......... a scrapbook layout is created! And all you have to do is make a pocket for the letter so it can be taken out (repeatedly I am sure!) and looked at, matte the photo(s), add a title, and you are done with a most wonderful and precious memory!
About $5.00 for some wonderful memories and a thrill for a child. Frugal and perfect. Just what we are all looking for!
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